Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective [Paperback]

Ram�n Grosfoguel (Author)

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Paperback: 283 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (Oct 30 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520230213
ISBN-13: 978-0520230217
Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.4 x 1.9 cm
Shipping Weight: 363 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,970,739 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Grosfogule's grounding in the complexities of the Puerto Rican past and present provides us with original and generative scholarship that requires a new self-reflexive approach to knowledge and nationalism, to colonialism and capitalism, to citizenship and subjectivity. Within ethnic studies, Grosfoguel's approach is a crucial contribution to the progress of the field beyond ethnic particularism and toward the identification and understanding of the broader social forces that create social differences and give them their determinate social meanings."

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Colonial Subjects is the first book to use a combination of world-system and postcolonial approaches to compare Puerto Rican migration with Caribbean migration to both the United States and Western Europe. Ramón Grosfoguel provides an alternative reading of the world-system approach to Puerto Rico's history, political economy, and urbanization processes. He offers a comprehensive and well-reasoned framework for understanding the position of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, the position of Puerto Ricans in the United States, and the position of colonial migrants compared to noncolonial migrants in the world system.

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This book provides an alternative reading of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans within the "modern world-system" (Wallerstein 1974), or, as Walter Mignolo has recently proposed, the "modern/colonial world-system" (Mignolo 2000). Read the first page

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